This Equal Rights Trust guide to using equality and non-discrimination strategies to advance economic and social rights was published in December 2014.
In a report published in March 2015, the JCHR welcomes the progress made by the Government in recognising children’s rights but says that more still needs to be done.
In March 2015, the Scottish Human Rights Commission published a briefing on the future of the UK’s human rights laws, setting out a ‘progressive test’ for any proposals to change the UK’s human rights laws.
The Justice Committee report on the Impact of changes to civil legal aid was published in March 2015.
A letter from the heads of the EHRC to the Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights warns against ‘regressive’ changes to Britain’s human rights laws.
Three new projects are at the centre of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s new Business Plan for 2015/16.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights’ ‘Seventh Report. Human Rights Judgments’ notes the disparity between the good record of the Government before the European Court of Human Rights and the media’s portrayal of these statistics.
In February 2015, Nicky Hawkins blogged about ‘the missing human side in the current debate around human rights’.
A February 2015 blog on the CRAE website says ‘warnings about the use of Tasers on children must not be ignored’.
The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee’s ‘Female genital mutilation: follow-up. Sixteenth Report of Session 2014–15’ was published in March 2015.
